The Based Life

Okay so I think it is here where we have to answer the question at the end of the Inequality video, the question being:   would I rather pick a country to live in where everyone has the same amount of wealth ($5000), or would I pick a country that has wealth inequality (half $10.000 and half $500).  My first thoughts regarding the question proposed is that we are missing a very crucial piece of information in regards as to  why the inequality exists in the first place . This question determines exactly what type of economic and political system I/we would be living under, since if we leave out this piece of information I think it is obvious that we would all pick the  everyone is equal option  since why would we not want, if we had the power, to allow everyone to live equally as prosperous? But alas we have to confront that crucial piece of information if we would really want to answer this question truthfully because the fact of the matter is, inequality is a r...

                   In the beginning, man lived in a state of war of all against all, constantly in an environment of uncertainty and anxiety. In this primitive state of existence every individual of the tribe had to contribute in order to sustain the existence of the group, the art forms expressed in these societies were very primitive since it reflects the aspirations of individuals whose main desire was to survive. But as Nietzsche noted no individual striving for existence can become an artist (Nietzsche (1911), 4). The explanation for this statement is the following, according to Nietzsche the Will of culture seeks to express itself through the art of the individuals of a higher caliber, called the genius, if one is concerned with matters other than singularly being the vehicle of culture then the art expressed is not the expression of culture but of a base desire. No art that is not the expression of higher culture is justified...